FRIGHTFUL WHIRLWIND AT GREYMOUTH.
About half-past five o’clock on Wednesday morning a sort of whirlwind from the south-west direction went through Greymouth, leaving its course marked by wrecked houses ; chimneys were blown down, and verandahs and fences carried away. At first it blew down a large piledriver ; then wrecked most of the houses on the west side of Mackay-street, smashed up a new two-storey building used as a Chinese store, owned by Wy Kee ; and blew the end out of the Great Western Hotel. The next place of importanca to suffer was the English church, one half of which was utterly smashed up, while the part left standing was twisted on the piles. The parsonage was considerably damaged, and a good deal of minor damage was done to private dwellings until the whirlwind struck a hill, where all trace of it is lost, the last house injured being Perkins, the lawyer, who lives on the slope of the hill. His verandah roof was carried 50 yards away, and some of his garden trees were broken by the wind. Other damage was done. The total damage is estimated at £4OOO.
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Patea Mail, 14 May 1881, Page 3
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